Beverly, described

This is how Beverly described herself back in the aughts.

Call me Beverly Van Beaver Dam. I'm the daughter of Vernon and Geneva (nee Potawatomistra, now deceased) Van Beaver Dam. I am a corn-fed midwesterner, way overeducated, born in Holland, Michigan and now living in the "Big Little" in the northeast US. I have a husband, a job as a professor, two kids, some friends, and lots to do. My husband is Owen, the working class English utopian. My boy is Sloopy, who we just want to hang on. My girl is Daisy. She pirouettes at Aikido class. MY BLOGGING ETHIC: Apparently, it's good form to state one's blogging ethic explicitly. Here's mine: To speak truth to power while being nice.

Stories of My Significance

Put it in your search engine. Nothing comes up.  You can google it.  I'm here to inscribe the phrase. Wait no more to tell and hear them!

Not incapable of lying. . .

only incapable of lying well.

Charade Hell

I was once required, in a game of charades to act out "When the Red, Red Robin Came Bob-, Bob-Bobbin' Along."  At that moment, I decided I hated charades and didn't think much of games in general.  The feeling that I would rather be scrubbing a dirty kitchen floor was visceral.

Random Book List by a Bunch of Dinner Guests

I've read maybe three of these?  But the list makes me hungrier than the smell of any fine meal. How I wish I had time for fiction!

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marianne Robinson, Gilead
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Anita Diamante, The Red Tent
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Harutie Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Edwidge Danticat, Brother I’m Dying
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
Dave Eggers, What is the What?
Jane Smiley, 1000 Acres
Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
Mikhail Bulgakhov, The Master and Margarita
Jose Saramago, Blindness
Oliver Sacks, Musicophila
Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten
Bernd Heinrich, The Snoring Bird 
Lawrence Weschler, Everything that Rises
Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter 
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing